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Plont a day ago

Whether or not it should be so, individual pirates are routinely taken to court, jailed, given insanely harsh punishments in an attempt to make them an example/deterrent, etc.

"Should piracy be illegal?" is a different question than, "given that the court has decided piracy is illegal, should this law be enforced equally?"

It is not hypocrisy to say that, if piracy is theft is a crime, corporations do not get to do it either. Especially not at many times the scale achieved by the owner and operator of a pirate streaming service.

The alternative is letting corporations be above the law. At that point, the law ceases to be a system of justice and instead becomes only a tool of oppression.